Running Kapacitor Installed Using an RPM Package

Method 1: Start Kapacitor as a service.

1. Start the Kapacitor service.

   1	systemctl start kapacitor

   

   If you modify the kapacitor.conf file when the Kapacitor service is running, you may fail to start Kapacitor by running the systemctl command. In this case, you can run the service reload command to reload the service and then restart the Kapacitor service.

2. Check the service status.

   1	systemctl status kapacitor

   

3. (Optional) Stop the service.

   1	systemctl stop kapacitor

   

Method 2: Run commands to start Kapacitor.

1. Start the Kapacitord service.

   1	kapacitord

   Or

   1	nohup kapacitord &

   

2. Execute the Kapacitor command line tool.

   1 2	kapacitor kapacitor -h